MCRO GT S4 R4 Review

GT S4R3 ended with a rather bad view into MCRO's GT S4 - as it turned out to be quite unbalanced, with McLarens dominating the season. With the next round at Autodromo de Foxza, it was found that BMW was actually the fastest car, with Mercedes coming 2nd and McLaren somehow being slowest. With that attitude, we were now coming to the 4th round of this GT season - not without some major changes.

A day before the race, Jeno retired from MCRO (and as it turned out, CDT as a whole) for good. Vark also was returning in a one-off, now with BWT BMW.

Quali

To nobody's surprise, Sot started well, however somehow Vark was P2 in the slowest car in the series. Storage in the same car was doing great too, until he flipped on lap 2. That helped Obli and Agg to catch up to the BMW. All 3 Mercs weren't doing great, however - as they were behind all McLarens, again. On the final lap, Vark lost P3 to Obli but was keeping up. Eventually he didn't overtake him and finished an impressive P3. Agg barely got P4 after a photo finish with Syrz, Avith finished P6. Storage finished P7, ahead of Lio who was last.

Race

Sot started well, and so did most of McLarens, taking all top 3 positions. Meanwhile, Blaze in the Autobacs was stuck at the starting line, at least visually as he was actually driving. Thanks, Roblox. On lap 2 Syrz crashed into the bridge and instantly DNF'd, making it one of the fastest MCRO DNF's to date.

After that, his teammate Avith was promoted to P5, behind both BMWs of Storage and Vark. On lap 3 however, Sot and Vark crashed, allowing Agg to lead the race and Storage to claim P3 for now. It didn't take Sot long to reclaim the lead though - only 1 lap. Vark wasn't doing as great however, as he was P5, a few seconds behind Avith in P4.

Lap 6 - Agg messed up the highway bridge turn and dropped to P3, behind Storage. Obli was now racing Avith for P4. An even more suprising thing happened a lap later - as Storage was suprisingly leading the race, ahead of Sot and Agg. Despite good efforts, he lost that lead quickly as Sot and Obli both overtook him and were battling for the lead.

2 laps later Storage had messed up the bridge chicane, like Agg and dropped a few places. He was now racing Vark for P4. Later it was also found that Obli was actually not racing for the lead since he disconnected on lap 7. He was now a lap down compared to the leader. Also, Vark overtook Storage and since Obli was a lap down, was now in P3.

Lap 19 - Lio DNF'd due to him "having a bad day". 4 Laps later, Storage who was battling for the lead in the opening laps is now about to be lapped by Sot, and Vark overtook Agg for P2. Avith, the only Mercedes driver in the race was also about to get lapped and was coming to Storage to overtake him.

Later in the race, there were suspicions of Obli and Blaze using an illegal engine, which explained the pace of them. As the race was now coming to an end, Sot started also lapping his teammate, Agg who was 3rd. He also won the race, with Vark getting a very impressive P2 in the slowest car. Storage finished P4, ahead of Avith in P5. Since Obli was a lap down and Blaze was bugged, we didn't figure out the results instantly.

Post-Race

The post-race discussion started with Avith complaining about the balance of cars, despite making some mistakes during the race and sometimes keeping up with the McLarens. Blaze wanted to also do a redo of the whole race - which wasn't done as the race was 30 minutes long and drivers were already tired. The same day, Obli was disqualified from the race for using an illegal engine, which lost him a whole point.

Despite some DNF's, it was a rather good race compared to GT S4R3. Next track is the longest one in the calendar, Nur City.